Black History Month Premiere
Please join us for Black History Month premiere of Train of Thoughts, along with a conversation with the cast. Light refreshments will be provided.
April 9, 2024
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Please join us for Black History Month premiere of Train of Thoughts, along with a conversation with the cast. Light refreshments will be provided.
PROJECT | SOUTH SHORE REMEMBERS
A nonprofit celebrating the work of Black women and gender-nonconforming media makers opened its doors Friday.
PROJECT | SOUTH SHORE REMEMBERS
Uplifting Black women media makers is Yvonne Welbon’s mission. That’s why she founded Sisters in Cinema as an online resource in 1997. Now, the digital resource and nonprofit is about to open a physical media and community center, called the Sisters in Cinema Media Arts Center, in Welbon’s neighborhood in South Shore on 75th Street.
PROJECT | SOUTH SHORE REMEMBERS
After nearly 30 years of educating and highlighting Black women, girls and gender nonconforming storytellers, a local nonprofit will open its flagship media center next week in South Shore.
PROJECT | UnBlocked
Tonika Lewis Johnson calls her latest project – unBlocked Englewood – “a very unusual art project.”
It involves beautifying the 6500 block of South Aberdeen Street in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood – though things like murals, gardens, gazebos, and landscaping – that’s not the unusual part.
PROJECT | TRAIN OF THOUGHTS
Award-winning filmmaker Asia Taylor collected vignettes from local residents, artists and entrepreneurs for the film, which will be screened Thursday at the Bronzeville Incubator.
PROJECT | MOJO GARDEN & PERFORMANCE CENTER
Plans to create an outdoor performance space for the forthcoming Muddy Waters Mojo Museum moved forward this week, with City Council’s approval to sell an adjacent vacant lot to the museum.
PROJECT | UnBlocked
Through “unBlocked Englewood,” Tonika Lewis Johnson and the Chicago Bungalow Association are paying for home repairs along one block, which the organizer hopes can help reverse decades of discriminatory housing policies.
PROJECT | UnBlocked
In the 1950s and ‘60s, Black families were often forced to pay often double — or more — to buy a home, in what was known as contract buying.
As a result, instead of earning equity and passing down generational wealth, Black homeowners often lost their homes.
PROJECT | UnBlocked
Segregation. Redlining. Land sale contracts, where real estate speculators in the 1950s and ’60s sold homes to Black families on rent-to-own contracts for double — or more — what the property was worth. Artist Tonika Lewis Johnson has been highlighting these decadeslong injustices against the Black community in projects such as “The Folded Map” and “Inequity for Sale.”
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